How do fish get triggered to spawn?

[Lord Shizzle]

I had a natural and nice fishingcove, so i made it more pratical to fish them. But now there are no more fish respawining into the cove what is kind of lame after the effort of making it an easy fishing cove xD.

[ritt5220]

I saw this posted some time ago - Every 120 seconds, that is, every two minutes, there will be a 50% chance of refreshing the fish, but it will refresh within 40 to 80 meters away from the player, which is why the player finds that some fish will not refresh after catching, because they refresh in the area 40 meters away. Therefore, it is difficult to try to build a fishing dock and want to fish in the same place all the time.

[Soma]

Maybe try removing all the build pieces that prevent creature spawns? Like workbenches, fires, .....etc.

This is a list of base items that prevent spawns:
https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Player_base

[Happy]

Fish respawn every few minutes after I catch them, sometimes sooner, sometimes later, but the always respawn. (I have a catch & release pond for bonus resources) I throw in Magmafish or Giant Herring or whatever, and all the perch & Pike keep coming over to investigate but swim away, even after I caught them beforehand, so I just ignore them.

Originally posted by Soma:

Maybe try removing all the build pieces that prevent creature spawns? Like workbenches, fires, .....etc.

This is a list of base items that prevent spawns:
https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Player_base

Fish aren't affected by this from my own findings, (I fish a lot) and have a fire directly over the pond I use to fish, as well as another campfire close to the edge of the pond on one end, both close to where the fish usually group up, but they do spawn further away when they come back, supposing their spawn is where you think it is. The wiki must need to be updated again, it's not whats happening.

It does suppress mob spawns though, so it is working as intended, just not with fish.

[MΛRCUS HΞLIUS]

Fish are the biggest waste of time, they are a rubbish food compared to what you can easily farm.